History

What, Where, How and When?

Question:

Where are the Garo hills located?

Answer:

The Garo hills are in the north-east of India.

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What, Where, How and When?

Q 1.

What was used in the ancient times to write manuscripts?

Q 2.

What were the subjects on which books were written in the past? Which of these would you like to read?

Q 3.

What are tributaries? [V. Imp.]

Q 4.

Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did?

Q 5.

Name the tributary of the river Ganga.

Q 6.

What was the job of religious teachers?     [V. Imp.]

Q 7.

From where does the word India come?

Q 8.

Who are archaeologist? What do they do? [V. Imp.]

Q 9.

What are inscriptions?

Q 10.

Where are the Garo hills located?

Q 11.

Describe at least two ways in which you think the lives oj kings would have been different from those of farmers.

Q 12.

What do you know about the location of the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills?
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Where are the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills located?

Q 13.

Where was Magadha located?

Q 14.

Find the word crafts persons' on page of textbook. In list at least five different crafts that you know about today. Are the crafts persons (a) men (b) women (c) both men and women

Q 15.

How are city people different from the people living in the Andaman Islands?

Q 16.

What is meant by manuscript?

Q 17.

How can you say that historians and archaeologists are like detectives? [V. Imp.]

Q 18.

How was travelling an important part of life of the people in the past? [V. Imp.]

Q 19.

Why do archaeologists look for bones of animals, birds and fish?

Q 20.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete each sentence:
(i) Men and women moved in search of……………… and to escape from ..
(ii)The name India was given by the Iranians and the ………………
(iii)The bark of the birch tree was used to prepare………………
(iv)Inscriptions were written on hard surfaces like………………
(v) Travelling from one place to another led to ……………..

Q 21.

List one major difference between manuscripts and inscriptions.

Q 22.

Why was Magadha famous? [V. Imp.]

Q 23.

People in the earliest times used to travel from one place to another. But their journeys were full of dangers. What type of dangers did they face?

Q 24.

Name any two animals which the people of the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills reared.

Q 25.

What are the occupations of the people of the Andaman Islands?

Q 26.

What do you know about the earliest people who lived along the banks of river Narmada for several hundred thousand years?

Q 27.

What are the different ways to find out about the past? Describe briefly. [Imp.]

Q 28.

Make a list of aU. the objects that archaeologists may find. Which of these could be made of stone?

Q 29.

Return to Rasheeda's question. Can you think of some answers to it?